He Minister of AgricultureLimber Cruz, described this Thursday as “serious” the statements of the former president Leonel Fernández About him Chicken cost In the country, which, in his opinion, could generate a unnecessary crisis Among the consumers.
“To know that the chicken has reached 125 pesos you don’t have to go anywhere. I better go to Moca,” said the ex -president in response to the invitation made by the president Luis Abinader During the weekly with the press, where he offered to cover the expenses to travel to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) To analyze government feeding programs.
In response to what is also expressed by the president of the Force of the People, the head of Agriculture said: “If he found it at 125 pesos, the chicken was in the Don Pepe Restaurant that bought it, because in the country there is no chicken at 125 (…) is between 79 and 82 pesos“
“If you listen to a person saying that the chicken is at 125, then you buy more chicken and You create an unnecessary crisis to the detriment of Dominican consumersand that is the serious thing. That is painful, “he said.
The official indicated that the current average cost of chicken is due to a crisis caused by heatsomething that “is already overcoming. Yesterday (Wednesday) I did a monitoring and we are going well to achieve total stability.”
The Variations in prices
When asked about the Variations in pricesaccording to the complaints of the consumersthe minister indicated that they are normal because the chicken “goes through Several hands“, starting with the farms and continuing with the marketers.
The minister said that the Dominican Republic is “self -sufficient chicken production. Five million chickens are producing monthly compared to 2020 “.
When talking about the measures to maintain the supply of that meat despite the heat season, Cruz said that more chickens were incubated. “The incubation of August It is for the 22 million chickens; that gives for him consumption and spare“He said.
The official referred to the subject during the Regional dialogue “Food and water security: A hand -to -hand agenda “, developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
